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Record W4416816679 · doi:10.1177/16094069251404191

Photovoice Methods Informing Participatory Action Research Involving Older Adults in Canada: A Scoping Review Protocol

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Marianne Saragosa, Hardeep Singh, Lois Kamenitz, H. Fujita, Erica Nekolaichuk, Elijah Gyansa

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicParticipatory Visual Research Methods
Canadian institutionsCanada Mortgage and Housing CorporationOntario Council of University LibrariesYork UniversityUniversity of Toronto
FundersSocial Science Research Council
KeywordsPhotovoiceParticipatory action researchInclusion (mineral)Data collectionCommunity-based participatory researchSystematic reviewProtocol (science)Citizen journalism

Abstract

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Background: Although the photovoice method has been used with older adults, relatively little is known about how this approach has been used with aging populations in Canada, and what influence it has had on individuals and the community more broadly. Since photovoice is an opportunity to enable social change, this scoping review aims to describe older adults’ involvement in research that uses photovoice in Canada and its related impacts. Methods: It will follow the JBI methodology, including conducting a quality assessment of the papers. The databases to be searched will include Embase, CINAHL, Medline, AgeLine, and PsycINFO. The inclusion criteria are studies that include older adults as the population, use photovoice as the data collection method, and are published in Canada. It will be reported against the guidance provided in the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). Discussion: This scoping review will provide an in-depth overview of English-language, peer-reviewed publications on studies that used photovoice with older adults in Canada, including a description of the use of participatory research approaches in this context. Scoping Review Registration: Open Science Framework ( https://osf.io/fevmh/ ).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Direct model labels (unvalidated)

Per-model category and study-design labels from the labeling rounds. They are machine output, unvalidated, and the disagreement between models ships as data. No study design here is MEDLINE-validated yet.

Model armCategoriesStudy designConfidence
gemmano category
Domain: not available · Genre: Protocol
About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: yes
Systematic reviewhigh
gptMetaresearch
Domain: Methods · Genre: Protocol
About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: yes
Systematic reviewhigh
models splitAgreement compares identical category sets and study designs across arms.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.191
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.107
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.769
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.1910.107
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.951
GPT teacher head0.845
Teacher spread0.106 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Labeled directly by 2 models reading the full record.

Metaresearch

The models disagree on parts of this classification; every voice is preserved in the section at the end of the page.

Study designSystematic review
DomainMethods
GenreProtocol

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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